Drug-related crime

sentences has its own flaws. Determinate sentence can eliminate the judge’s bias by giving equal sentence to all criminals. The judge has little discretion on the sentencing. This sentence mainly focus on giving punishiment based on the seriouness of the crime. However, determinate sentence failed to considers that not every criminal is the same person (Hayes, 2006). For example, first time offenders are mixed with offenders who are likely to reoffend. Hence, it is difficult to find the perfect…

President of the United States, Barack Obama. Police officers protect and serve the residents of the city in which they work in. Police departments must have an effective police force because police departments have the difficult task of preventing crime. In Jordan, our police department is committed to providing quality police services to our community, but how safe is our city when compared to surrounding cities? Jordan and Belle Plaine have similar populations, but what city has the better…

In African American are 21% more likely than whites to receive mandatory minimum sentences and 20% more likely to be sentenced to prison that white drug defendants. Racial profiling is a problem that has been around for a long time and nobody has seem to put the attention into this because its something not everyone is being affected by. The people targeted by this are the different races we have in this country. African-Americans, Hispanics,Asians, and other races across the U.S. to be exact.…

Weed and Seed Program The crime trend has continuously increased over the past decades. The increase of crimes and the higher percentage of individuals entering the Criminal Justice System has made the Federal Government to take actions in the issue. The Federal Government has implemented several strategies and programs to help citizens stay away from the Criminal Justice System and to prevent those who have been in the system from reoffending. Programs have target high crime communities and…

drinking, vandalism, and drug use as a form of having fun. Their idea of amusement is partying, getting high, bullying and robbing people. Drive- bye shooting is the most numerous violent crime committed by gangs. Members will hunt for homes, vehicles, of hang- outs of rival gangs and well drive by and shoot at the members of the rival gang. Homicides among Latino gangs are frequently near- ritual exhibitions of man hood and in the black gangs they usually fight over drug trade…

The War on Drugs The War on Drugs is a term coined by President Richard M. Nixon. Was it a real war, in the introduction the question was asked “But if the deployment of soldiers is a requirement to wage war who is the enemy in the War on drugs?” The answer to the question is yes. In the 1980’s the US deployed Soldiers to South America in support of Counter Drug operations. The war on drugs begins in the 1970, with the intent to stop civil unrest and to provide assistance to our Soldiers…

wide range of tools. Following are the important national and international tools: [4] International Tools: United Nations Convention against transnational organized crime: This instrument came in to effect on 25th of December 2003. It is one among the major international instruments in action counter to transnational organized crime. The code of the tool is to hinder, abolish and punish trafficking in persons, exclusively women and children. [5] Convention on cybercrime and additional…

Is it justice when we give power to legislature to make fixed sentences for every crime and offense? Or should congress give judges less freedom to change sentences to the mitigating facts of each criminal offense within a specified range? For recent decades, the increase of mandatory minimum penalties for crimes together with the huge increase in the prison inmate population, has compelled many to reconsider this question for criminal justice. The Supreme court has kept a lengthy mandatory…

In the movie by Booth (2007), “American Drug War: The Last White Hope” African American, Rick Ross is mentioned as one of the most famous drug offenders in the 1980’s, who was blamed for the cocaine epidemic that harmed black communities. He explained that as he grew his dream was not to be a dealer, rather a tennis player in college but under the circumstances he saw a new horizon in selling cocaine. Illiterate and living in poverty, Ross explains that the attractiveness of cocaine was the…

offenders the chance to be rehabilitated for committing a crime and not having the offense recorded on their permanent record. Juvenile probation serves as the guardian of juveniles who might not be able to fend for themselves (Alarid, 2015). Adult probation is for offenders that are over the age of eighteen (sometimes juveniles…